Mookie Betts: Playoffs Have 'Different Feel'

""The season gets long and it's hard to play 160 games and really stay locked in," Betts began. "But when you get to the postseason, not that this matters more than the regular season, but it's a different mindset, a different feel. "It's a lot more fun.""

""It's cool," Betts said of being a finalist for the NL Gold Glove Award at shortstop. "Like I said, I don't really care about it. I'm just doing my job. That's how I kind of view it. But I mean, it's cool. "If I win a Gold Glove at short, that will be something I can definitely tell my son I was able to do one in the infield and one in the outfield. But at"

Mookie Betts endured a down year but bounced back to make a significant impact for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the postseason. Through 10 playoff games he is hitting .293/.370/.439 with four doubles, one triple and six RBI. Betts has won three World Series championships in his 12-year career and is pursuing a fourth title. He describes the postseason as requiring a different mindset and being more fun, and he cited Kobe Bryant's Mamba Mentality as inspiration during the 2020 run. Betts completed his first full season at shortstop and became an NL Gold Glove finalist after converting from the outfield.

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